As summer ends, back-to-school sales begin, and class start-dates quickly approach, there can be a mixture of hesitancy and excitement in the air. For high school students, it’s the the beginning of...

Every student at Patrick Henry College must complete the core curriculum, regardless of their major. Alongside history, literature, and philosophy classes, every student takes Euclidean Geometry....

The Big Picture: Huge Classical Core Curriculum at Patrick Henry College

An ability to focus—an application of one’s attention to a particular task for a prolonged period of time—is becoming increasingly scarce in present-day culture. There are so many facets of the world...

Proverbs 11:14 says, “Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.”

Every student that comes to Patrick Henry College takes Western Literature I and Western Literature II—two foundational classes that make up a critical part of Patrick Henry College’s classical core...

When Marbury v. Maddison took the newly-formed United States by storm in 1803, it didn’t just become a landmark case for the Federalist party in a time of political uncertainty (although it most...

In addition to being an institution for classical education, Patrick Henry College is committed to keeping the workings of the college rooted in Biblical principles. That means that every class,...

Being able to write well is a fundamental skill in any career field. To prepare students for the real world, Patrick Henry College exposes its students to several different types of essays in its...

Associate Professor at Jones School of Law Adam J. MacLeod, lamented his students' inability to think and process ideas outside their sphere of opinion, a phenomenon he referred to as “dis-education...